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SFU handles waste
improperly

BURNABY [CUP] - Simon
Fraser University’s improper
handling of chemical wastes

ages and explosions, says a
chemical waste operator who
claims to have escaped ser-
ious injury from SFU chem-
icals.

Ron Anodt; operator of
t University of BC’s chem-
ical incinerator, said one
delivery of SFU chemical
wastes exploded’ after he
mixed the contents of con-
tainers marked non-inflam-
mable.

“Everything was marked
non-inflammable and one

B=: resulted in toxic leak-

- was mis-marked,”’ he said

October 30. ‘‘The whole area
was a big fireball.’’

Anodt ‘said he also felt
SFU was breaking safety
stipulations in its contract to

Walkout

that they were ‘‘tired of
etting the run-around’’ and
‘being treated like fourth
class citizens’’, education
students at Dalhousie Uni-

* versity walked out of their

classrooms October 23 to
protest classroom renovation
delays.

. The students say the ad-
ministration promised quick
action to renovate classroom
space but that these prom-
ises had been broken .

The demonstrators took
their protest to the univers-
ity president who said he
would not be able to speak
to the students at that time
but a meeting could be
arranged at a later date.

Paula Robinson, a spokes-
person for the group, said
the academic progress of the
students was being held

    
  

dispose wastes with UBC.

‘‘Another time I was wor-
king with SFU materials,
and there was just gallons
and gallons of sludge left in
the containers.’’

He said he left the chem-
ical containers in UBC’s
incinerator, which still had
not been activated, while he
moved away a few steps to
meet someone.

“The whole thing explod-
ed. It missed me by just an
inch or two.”’

Anodt said SFU’s contract
with UBC stipulates that no
solid ‘‘sludge or grime’’ be
left in containers brought for
incineration.

SFU delivery and safety
officials insist there have not
been many problems with
disposal procedures.

| Students protest

_ HALIFAX [CUP] - Stating

back due to the delays. One
room was described as being
‘tin shambles’’ and did not
contain material needed for
the completion of assign-
ments.

One protestor said stu-
dents ‘‘pay good money’”’ to
study at Dalhousie and ‘‘the-
re’s no way the fourth class
treatment is going to con-
tinue.’’

The problem originated
when classroom spaced was
moved from King’s College .
Students termed the build-
ing the ‘‘shack’’. The
“‘shack. was built in World
War II to accomodate navy
personnel studying at King’s
College.

The students were moved,
however, before the new
space had been completely
renovated.

College board vote

[CUP] - Students might re-
cieve a vote at the college
board level ‘‘if there is a
great demand’”’ by students
r representation, says an
education ministry official.
‘Ron Tucker, executive
assistant to education minis-
ter Brian Smith, said stu-
dents should confront Smith
with the issue during his
current province-wide tour.
“One request (Smith) has
recieved was from a student
in Kelowna for students
representation on boards,”’
Tucker said. ‘‘If there is a
great demand for represent-
ation, the ministry may
make some changes.”’
Under current legislation,
two university students rep-
resentatives recieve a vote
on 15-member board of gov-

ernors, while college stu-
dents are not allowed to vote
on their college boards.

Capilano College student
Catherine Ludgate recently
resigned from that college’s
board as a protest, saying it
is useless for students to
attend board meetings
where they are denied a
vote.

“We're just token stu-
dents,’’ she said. ‘‘We
should have voting represen-
tation or there shouldn’t be
anyone there.”’

Earlier this fall, students
at Vancouver Vocational In-
stitute passed a motion at a
general meeting calling for
student representation with
a vote on their institute’s
board.

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Tuition petition at Capilano

[CUP] - One in three stu-
dents at Capilano College
has signed a petition circu-
lated for two days rejecting a
new fee formula which could
mean an 88 per cent tuition
hike.

Student organizers have
also been distributing a leaf-
let criticizing the provincial
government for calling for a
massive fee increase while
cutting back on $700,000 in
funding to the college.

The student society there
has placed an advertisement
in the student newspaper
listing the college board
members’ home telephone
numbers. ‘‘It’s a continuing
struggle for education,’’ the
ad states; ‘‘the Capilano
College student society
urges you to inform the
college board what a student
is, and what a student really
thinks about the issues fac-
ing us all. It’s time to be
heard.”’

Student organizer Kate
Hendry said Capilano, the
only college of seven in the
lower mainland facing the
new formula, is being used
as a ‘‘test case’.

‘Students at other col-
leges can look at what

Student orgs against Klan

VANCOUVER[CUP!) - Stu-
dent organizations are rally-
ing with ethnic and labour
groups to have criminal cha-
rges brought against the Ku
Klux Klan here for ‘‘inciting
hatred and threatening the
peace.”

The Klan has been active-
ly recruiting in Vancouver,
distributing literature to
students entering Vancouver
Technical High School and
reportedly handing out ora-
nge cards on the university
of BC campus with the
message: ‘‘racial purity is

happens here and say, ‘I
want the same,’’’ she said.
‘‘But if we blow it, it could
have a really heavy duty
effect on other colleges.’’

Students plan to present
the 1,100-signature petition
to the college board. The
petition calls for an access-
ibility study on the effects of
the proposed increase.

‘‘People are really piss-
ed off,’’ says Steve Shall-
horn of teh B.C. Students
Federation. ‘‘We’re hopeful
that it can be nipped in the
bud. Students are ready to
fight it all the way.”’

Organizers are consider-
ing holding protest marches
and mass lobbies.

Meanwhile, college princ-
ipal Paul Gallagher has
warned the student society
to expect cutbacks of up to
$700,000 next year.

Gallagher said the college
has been cutting back ser-
vices, so that the next cuts
will be made to faculty and
staff salaries.

“Up to this point we've
cut-back non-personnel
things quite a bit. You don’t
cut back nickel and dime
stuff on a half-million dol-
lars.

Canada’s security.’’

Delicia Crump, of the
National Black Coalition, has
written BC attorney-general
Allan Williams asking perm-
ission to lay charges against
the Klan under section 281-2
of the criminal code for
willful incitement and pro-
motion of hatred.

Student organizations are
now sending telegrams to
Williams urging that he
allow Crump to lay the
charges, as is required un-
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Gallagher said he blames
the provincial government
for the funding shortfall,
adding that ‘‘institutional
autonomy has become an
illusion’’ because of the
governments policy.

Student society executive
member Stephen Howard
said Gallagher and the col-
lege boad are as responsible
as the government for the
deficit.

“*You have to focus a lot of
negative attention on the '
government but the college
board and Gallagher are not
representing the college that
well,’’ Howard said. ‘‘They
said they’d work quietly in
the system but I think that’s
going to ensure we don’t
recieve proper funding.’’

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